Sentences with phrase «industrial sources»

The authors also look at industrial sources of chemicals that can mimic the activity of estrogen hormones.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

While industrial sources receive less attention than the power sector, they're responsible for about 21 % of global emissions.

When I go out, I still order mostly vegan, as I don't trust sources industrial sources of meat, fish, and dairy.

But another 19 % comes from industrial sources, like concrete plants, whose CO2 emissions are not monitored at all.

Such pollution typically forms when gases are emitted from cars, trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

And the recent EPA decision to strip away a key component of the agency's «once in, always in» (OIAI) air pollution protection policy could result in increased emissions of toxic pollutants from major industrial sources in essentially every state.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

Water used in the stimulation and operation of the EGS reservoir can be treated waste water from other industrial sources such as, coal fired power plants, treated sewage effluent or water produced during petroleum production.

John Robbins of Earth Save International estimates that the water pollution attributable to US agriculture, including runoff of soil, pesticides, and manure, is greater than all municipal and industrial sources combined.

In other words, coal power plants would not be lumped together with natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants in the same industrial source category subject to the same emission standards.

Heitkamp said «the credit amounts have been too anemic to drive a lot of innovation» in enhanced oil recovery and carbon sequestration, noting that CCUS projects have had little success and the credit does not include industrial sources and utilization technologies beyond EOR.

Emissions of greenhouse gases from large industrial sources increased by 0.6 percent since 2012, according to the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data, which is compiled from reports sent in by more than 8,000 emitters.

Steelmaking is energy intensive and one of the world's leading industrial sources of greenhouse gases, generating nearly two tonnes of CO2 emissions per tonne of steel produced and accounting for about five per cent of total GHG emissions.

Industrial sources said that Musk's visit to Israel is linked to cooperation with Israeli startup Cortica.

«The mention of Taconic in the email was speculative, the result of a single DOH staff person looking at a list of nearby potential industrial sources,» he said in a statement.

Low background atmospheric concentrations, together with well - known and often distinct isotopic characteristics (variants of lead with different atomic weights) of industrial sources make lead an ideal tracer of industrial pollution.

Following it in the list of significant industrial sources in the U.S. are the production of iron and steel, ammonia, aluminum and petrochemicals — the building blocks of much of modern endeavor.

In addition, the cost to reduce global emissions in a world that valued terrestrial, fossil fuel and industrial sources dropped to half that of the world in which only fossil fuel and industrial entities paid to emit carbon.

This location, a lengthy tanker - trip away from the usual industrial sources of CO2, such as refineries, presumably adds to the price that Climeworks can command for its product.

The technology pioneered at the Petra Nova project is relevant for controlling emissions from other types of fossil power generation (e.g. natural gas) and from other difficult - to - decarbonize heavy industrial sources (like cement, steel, and chemical factories).

In case you hadn't heard, the chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Fred Upton (R - MI) wants to scrap EPA plans to to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and other large industrial sources altogether.

mercury pollution is a transboundary pollutant, depositing locally, regionally, and globally, and affecting water bodies near industrial sources (including the Great Lakes) and remote areas (including the Arctic Circle);

Deforestation from subsistence groups, primarily in Africa and South America, produces 30 % of the total global CO2 release while industrial sources contribute 14 %.»

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) points to mobile sources (trains, planes and automobiles) as the greatest contributor to American air pollution, but industrial sources such as power plants and factories are not far behind.

«Power plants directly emit a long list of harmful pollutants,» the campaign's website says, «and electric utilities also remain the nation's largest industrial source of carbon dioxide, a significant contributor to global warming.»

The U.S. EPA has also issued rules to reduce particulate matter from major industrial sources, including coke ovens, iron and steel manufacturing, non-ferrous smelting, and stationary diesel engines.

Emissions from fossil fuel use and industrial sources increased to a record 35.3 billion tonnes in 2013, PBL revealed — 2 % higher than 2012.

Because CCS technology like that deployed at Petra Nova can be adapted for CCS at other industrial sources of CO2, projects like Petra Nova can generate valuable lessons that help us reduce costs, develop fair environmental and safety regulations, and increase investor experience for CCS projects in all sectors of the economy in the future.

EPA's current and probable future climate regulations include GHG / fuel - economy standards for all categories of mobile sources (cars, trucks, marine vessels, aircraft, non-road vehicles and engines) and GHG / energy - efficiency standards for dozens of industrial source categories.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

The oil and gas industry is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, a much more potent climate - warming pollutant than carbon dioxide pound - for - pound, and the oil and gas sector is the second largest industrial contributor to overall climate pollution.

Ambient air has very small traces of oil coming from vehicles and industrial sources.

And until it's economical to pull it out of coal - fired power plant smokestacks or other industrial sources, it comes from petroleum - based sources, as well.

Study lead author Dr Ryan Hossaini, from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, said: «VSLS can have both natural and industrial sources.

During the El Niño of 1997 to 1998, they say, tropical forests pumped out a whopping 6.7 petagrams of carbon a year, an amount equal to CO2 from industrial sources.

The new findings should help scientists harness the abundant energy currently stored in waste from agricultural, municipal and industrial sources.

Limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations to low levels requires strategies to manage anthropogenic carbon emissions from terrestrial systems as well as fossil fuel and industrial sources.

The structural problem should work itself out in the next few years, and research funding is being replaced in part by philanthropy and industrial sources.